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...came as a complete shock," said Brent Stahl, a news research analyst and staffer with the paper's respected Minnesota Poll, which is also being axed. The local Newspaper Guild polled its members and produced a vote of "no confidence" in the paper's publisher, Donald Dwight. But City Editor Bob Franklin, asked if he could continue to operate with the reduced staff, grimly replied, "We can and we will...
...Mines and Men," by Michael McClung '83 features the struggle of the ingenue, Angela Mercy, and her true-love, Dwight Tornado, to recover Angela's gold mine from the clutches of the arch-villain, Gustav Yuvantsum...
DIED. Emmet John Hughes, 61, presidential aide and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, longtime journalist at Time Inc. and author who wrote extensively on the U.S. presidency; of a heart attack; in Kingston, N.J. Despite drafting speeches for Ike's 1952 and 1956 campaigns and working from 1968 to 1970 for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Hughes saw himself as a "dissident Democrat." In America the Vincible (1959), he called the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policies "static, timid, vacillating and unrealistic," thus severing his personal relationship with the President. With The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower...
Jeanette Blakes, 28, was given a 20-to 60-year sentence for shooting to death an acquaintance who, Blakes says, attacked her with a knife. She has served six years in the Dwight Correctional Center, Illinois' women's prison. "What do I miss most here? My freedom," Blakes says. The abstraction sounds palpable. "Just my freedom. Not so much being caressed, or anything like that. You take away a person's freedom, you take away everything...
...Dwight, Ill. Opened 1930 Capacity: 400 Inmates: 400 females